Last Updated: Thursday, December 18, 2014, 20:38
New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits fell last week, sticking to a downward trend as the labor market strengthens.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 18, 2014, 09:51
The Federal Reserve raised its annual outlook for US economic growth on Wednesday and projected a larger decline in unemployment over the next two years.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 11, 2014, 21:25
US retail sales and jobless claims data showed a strengthening economy Thursday, but prices for exports and imports both fell, signalling little added inflationary pressure in the past month.
Last Updated: Friday, December 5, 2014, 19:22
US employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in October and wages increased, which could bring the Federal Reserve closer to raising interest rates.
Last Updated: Friday, November 28, 2014, 17:16
Eurozone member Germany registered among the lowest unemployment rates at 4.9 percent in October, with Spain among the highest at 24 percent.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 21:25
New claims, which indicate the pace of layoffs, rose to 348,000 in the week to January 25, up 19,000 from the previous week`s revised figure of 329,000.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 17:09
Unemployment rate in India is showing an increasing trend since 2011 when it was 3.5 percent. The same rose to 3.6 percent in 2012 and climbed to 3.7 percent last year.
Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 14:47
Over 13 million jobs were created in China in 2013 while the urban unemployment rate in the world's second largest economy stood at around 4.1 percent.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 14:48
Spain`s unemployment rate rose above 26 percent in the final quarter of 2013, official data showed Thursday, as the eurozone`s fourth-largest economy emerged only haltingly from a long, job-wrecking recession.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 13:51
Federal Reserve policymakers will likely leave intact their delicately worded easy-money message when they meet next week, despite a surprisingly sharp drop in US unemployment that threatens to make a central part of that message irrelevant.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 19:50
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell for a second week last week, suggesting a sharp step-down in job growth in December was likely to be temporary.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 05:39
US President Barack Obama Saturday urged Congress to make 2014 a "year of action" for the economy, making the federal unemployment benefits extension the first item on the agenda.
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